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This lovely, 1991 adaptation of Elizabeth Von Arnim's novel has a superb cast and a tone so mellow you can feel your pulse get slower. Josie Lawrence and Miranda Richardson play a pair of unhappily married women who rent an Italian villa for a month, sharing the rent with a crusty Englishwoman (Joan Plowright) and a lonely aristocrat (Polly Walker). Sun, rest, sinking into the green grass for long ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Alfred Molina, Joan Plowright, Miranda Richardson, Polly Walker, Josie Lawrence
Directed By: Mike Newell

Kevin Kline took home an Oscar for his performance as a self-absorbed lothario who prepares for lovemaking by drinking in his own "manly" musk, but it would be hard to single him out as the best thing about the film. The fact is, the entire cast of this hilarious comedy is perfect: John Cleese as the conservative barrister defending a member of sexy Jamie Lee Curtis's gang, Ms. Curtis as the ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Maria Aitken, Al Ashton, Roger Brierley, Ken Campbell, Cynthia Cleese
Directed By: John Cleese

As seen on A&E MIDSOMER MURDERS Set Two What evil lurks beyond the well-trimmed hedges of Midsomer... The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. Based on characters created by Caroline Graham, modern master of the English village mystery, the series stars John Nettles (Bergerac) as the unflappable ...

Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Starring: John Nettles, Jane Wymark, Barry Jackson, Laura Howard, Daniel Casey

Starring: Adam Roarke, Lynn Borden, Jackie Giroux, Milt Kamen, Barney Phillips
Directed By: Barry Pollack

This energetic, sardonic, and richly funny adaptation of Daniel Defoe's classic novel is completely unlike what you might expect from genteel Masterpiece Theatre. The heroine, Moll Flanders (Alex Kingston), after being born in prison, wends her way through the top and bottom of 18th-century English society, has five husbands (including a roguish highwayman who becomes the love of her life), ...

Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Starring: James Bowers, Alex Kingston, Nicola Kingston, Geoffrey Beevers, Lucy Evans
Directed By: David Attwood

Manufacturer: Fox Home Entertainment
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette, Gérard Depardieu, Jim Broadbent, Robin Williams
Directed By: Christopher Hampton

Sexy leading man Rupert Everett (SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING) heads an acclaimed all-star cast in this wonderfully witty story of decadence, romance, and scandal! Sir Robert (Jeremy Northam -- HAPPY TEXAS, MIMIC) is a highly respected politician whose spotless reputation is the pride of his beautiful wife (Cate Blanchett -- ELIZABETH) and adoring sister (Minnie Driver -- GOOD ...

Manufacturer: Miramax
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Nancy Carroll (II), Minnie Driver, Lindsay Duncan, Charles Edwards (VI)

Kevin Kline took home an Oscar for his performance as a self-absorbed lothario who prepares for lovemaking by drinking in his own "manly" musk, but it would be hard to single him out as the best thing about the film. The fact is, the entire cast of this hilarious comedy is perfect: John Cleese as the conservative barrister defending a member of sexy Jamie Lee Curtis's gang, Ms. Curtis as the ...

Starring: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Maria Aitken
Directed By: John Cleese, Charles Crichton

Mr. Bean meets Mr. Bond in Johnny English, a spy spoof that skewers the genre with Rowan Atkinson's trademark brand of veddy-British slapstick. It's a bit half-baked as a wannabe franchise, but Atkinson's creation of a new screen persona is just promising enough to warrant a sequel, despite critics' complaints that Austin Powers had already exhausted the spy-spoof's potential. ...

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Simon Bernstein, Tim Berrington, Rowland Davies, Oliver Ford Davies

Acorn Media presents a beautifully realized boxed set that brings to life all the ghastliness and arch humor of Caroline Graham's intriguing mystery series. Set 1 includes four episodes: Death's Shadow, Strangler's Wood, Blood Will Out, and Beyond the Grave Each is set in a different village in the quaint but surprisingly lethal Midsomer County, complete with sharp ...

Manufacturer: Acorn Media
Starring: John Nettles, Jane Wymark, Barry Jackson, Laura Howard, Daniel Casey